Solving Daggerfall

[marquis]

Can you solve this game without using spell points or magic.

I do not have enough spell points and I cannot open magical doors.

marquis

[Alporik]

I am afraid that I have always used characters that have some magic. Is it possible to have no magical ability at all? If so, the only way I can think of to open magically locked doors is to lure monsters near them. In my experience, at least humanoid bad guys will open doors when they are near them, even if they don't need to go through the door to get to you.

[Alporik]

Can you solve this game without using spell points or magic.

I do not have enough spell points and I cannot open magical doors.

marquis

One other thought, can you buy magic items or use artifacts (e.g., oghma)to raise your intelligence or spell points enough to get the open spell?

[Timmeh]

Yes it is. I've heard people of using the climbing skill instead of using any sort of levitation. That said, find a object that casts levitation and an object that casts recall if you want to go without magic. Two spells one simply shouldn't go without.

[vedaa]

You could, technically. In the very very last Quest, Journey to Atherius, you practically do nothing but levitate everywhere since you have to fly up and down and pull levers and click items.
Sooooo, if you had no magic at all, and didn't want to use magic, you could accumulate lots of levitate potions, or enchant items with levitate.
But the spells you need to beat the game are Open (you need to get through Shedungent's door to see Nulfaga) and Levitate. Recall makes things 100x easier and faster.
Other than those three spells, you don't need anything else.

[Lag.Com]

I think somebody proved you don't need Levitate (though it obviously helps a lot) to beat the Mantellan Crux dungeon. You would definitely want some kind of Recall-enchanted item, though. So much backtracking and climbing.